sort a struct based on one member's alpha?

[sjahf7]

One last thing, is there an advantage to not declaring the std namespace at the outset, but rather writing std:: before every member function?

[sjahf7]

Also thank you bluecoder, works like a charm!

[firedraco]

One last thing, is there an advantage to not declaring the std namespace at the outset, but rather writing std:: before every member function?

You won't pollute the global namespace with it's functions so you can have a variable named "count" for example.

[sjahf7]

thank you all